Search results for: “throwback gadget”

  • Casio DW-100 – throwback gadget

    My story with the Casio DW-100 began in the school canteen. One of the people that I used to hang with as I ate my packed lunch was a guy called Neil. Neil was one of the better off people in my school, he had a maths tutor. His Mum ran a green grocers and…

  • Bush TR 82 – throwback gadget

    Whilst you might not know the Bush TR 82, if you were from western Europe you’ll recognise its style immediately. Post-war Britain In the post-war era Bush Radio Limited tried to fill consumers demands for entertainment. There were radios that would sit on a sideboard and would have the presence of a TV set. Many…

  • Bose Wave Music System – throwback gadget

    It is a little disingenuous to call the Bose Wave Music System a throwback gadget, mainly because Bose still makes it. It would be reasonable to call it a design classic. There are benefits to picking up a 2006 model Bose Wave Music System, rather than paying the premium of a new device. Bose Wave…

  • Sony Walkman WM-R202 – throwback gadget

    I got a Sony Walkman WM-R202 and loved it, though it was only for a short while. It was delicate and fragile, or I had a lemon; but it was the kind of device that stuck with me and made sense for me to profile as an iconic throwback gadget. Back when I started work…

  • Shareware: Throwback gadget

    Shareware -back before the internet became ubiquitous, software was distributed by bulletin boards. It was expensive to dial into a board, so magazines uses to have storage media pre-loaded with applications on the front of them. For much of the late 1990s and early 2000s my parents used to use MacFormat magazine CDs and floppy…

  • Throwback gadget: SnapperMail

    Thinking about SnapperMail takes me back to end of 2001, I started to prepare for leaving my job at Edelman. This meant upgrading my home IT set up. I picked up an iBook. The iBook was Apple’s consumer-orientated laptop made from 1999 to 2006. Mine was a second generation ‘Snow’ laptop with a G3 processor,…

  • Apple iPod HiFi – throwback gadget

    Introducing the Apple iPod HiFi Now and again Apple makes some odd diversions in direction and focus. One of these was the Apple iPod HiFi. The best way to describe it is imagine of Dieter Rams had made over one of Panasonic’s old RX DT75 with the motorised ‘cobra’ top. Which is why it made…

  • Philips Philishave Tracer razor: Throwback gadget

    When I was a child my Dad taught me how to use an electric razor and helped me buy my first one a Philips Philishave Tracer. Wet shaving wasn’t as popular in the 1970s and 80s as it was synonymous with cuts and pieces of tissue paper stuck to your face. My Dad used a…

  • Sony MICROVAULT: Throwback gadget

    The Sony MICROVAULT offered a great opportunity to move large amounts of data around. We are used to shipping everything over the internet now, but for the past three decades the sneakernet – where data is exchanged over devices that have been delivered by hand still is an efficient way to move large amounts of…